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Quote Left It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice -- there are two other possibilities one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Quote Right
Quote Left A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole. Quote Right
Quote Left The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work. Quote Right
Quote Left Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. Quote Right
Quote Left You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER Quote Right
Quote Left The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made. Quote Right
Quote Left Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is bad. Quote Right
Quote Left The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. Quote Right
Quote Left A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. Quote Right
Quote Left Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. Quote Right
Quote Left There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life. Quote Right
Quote Left You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER. Quote Right
Quote Left I remember reading that scientists once believed the universe was made of hydrogen, because it was the most plentiful ingredient found. If that theory holds any truth, then I believe it to be made of stupidity. Quote Right
Quote Left I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy. Quote Right
Quote Left Rock journalism is people who can't write talking to people who can't talk for people who can't read. Quote Right
Quote Left Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. Quote Right
Quote Left Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. Quote Right
Quote Left No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. Quote Right
Quote Left Drop out of school before your mind rots from our mediocre educational system. Quote Right
Quote Left The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open. Quote Right
Quote Left Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. Quote Right
Quote Left I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa. Quote Right
Quote Left Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not. Quote Right
Quote Left In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Quote Right
Quote Left There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. Quote Right
Quote Left Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read. Quote Right
Quote Left My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. Quote Right
Quote Left Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. Quote Right
Quote Left Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. Quote Right
Quote Left Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Quote Right
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